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Academic rank

Academic organizations typically have a rather rigid set of ranks. Within the United States the hierarchy of ranks are

Full Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Post-doctoral fellow
Graduate student which include teaching assistants[?] and research assistants[?]
Undergraduate

There is a parallel system of administrative ranks

President
Dean
Department head

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